Streetwise is just about to head off when he spots a human he doesn't recognise heading into the base. He walks over to him, "Can I help you, ma'am?" (OOC) Best change it really :)

Andi Lassiter smiles up at you. "Oh, thank you but no. I'm fine. Just headed to the repair bay."

Streetwise nods, "Here to see anyone in particular?"

Andi Lassiter shakes her head. "No....well, other than (insert gumby name here) who is helping me with a project for Silverbolt, not really."

You say, "You're sure I can't help you with anything?"
From afar (to Andi Lassiter and Streetwise), Hardstrike (HS)  blares over your radios. " I Have a code red medical situation in Rome, Italy! Its...its Huffer. He's been destroyed bywhat looks like a stunticon attack. His laser core is intact and operational, but without a compatiable power source to hook up to, I don't know for how long.

You transmit a message to Hardstrike: We're on our way. Just keep him operational until we get there.

Andi Lassiter startles at that radio message, then says, "Oh, gods." She looks up at you again. "I guess you can help me. Can you get me to Rome, Italy, as quickly as possible? I need to get a backup power source from the repair bay first though."

Streetwise nods, "Go get it and meet me at the landing pad."
Andi Lassiter nods. "Thank you." She turns and runs toward the repair bay as fast as she can.
Streetwise rushes off to prepare a transport

Landing Pad <AC>

     The smell of heated tarmac hits you first as you survey the landing and liftoff point for all flights to Cybertron. The wreckage of previous battles here are off to the back in a jumbled heap. To the southeast is the massive form of Autobot City itself, a bit battlescarred, but still operational. Surrounding you to all other sides are forests of large conifer trees.

The spaceport absolutely sparkles with a new shine - in fact, it's almost blinding in direct sunlight. Spots are a thing of the past, and each building has a brand new coat of paint. Even the *scrap* piles look like they've been cleaned off and straightened up.

Streetwise turns to his leader, "Did you get the transmission?"

Hot Spot runs into the area he shouts to Streetwise in the distance, "Yes, We better get going." he pauses to think for a moment and then says, "You wait for Andi and Glide, I'll go ahead and make sure there are no decepticons in the area."

Hot Spot jumps into the air he then twist and compresses witht he sound of crunching and twinsting metal, Then where Transformers Only Trigger was now sits the form of a Blue Fire Engine.

Streetwise shakes his head at 'Spot, "There's only one shuttle, man. We can't get there seperately."
Blue Fire Engine turns around quickly and emits, "I'm going by road."

You say, "To Rome?"

Autobot Hovercraft (Defender II) has arrived.

The hovercraft hull suddenly splits, a ramp slowly extending from an unsuspected opening.

Hardstrike has arrived.

<Public> @set me=!she likes me for me! Bug says, "Er.. that last was about me (not being greeted)."

Streetwise greets Hardstrike and Huffer with concern, "How is he, Hardstrike? What can we do?"

Huffer is wheel barreled out of the hovercraft, his gritty, pessimistic faceplate sitting on the top of the pile.
Hardstrike comes out, Huffer's laser core in his arms. Its placed in a small, portable recharge chamber for tools. It seems to be keeeping the core stabilized, for now. A small hovercarrier comes out behind him, carrying Huffers body..or whats left of it.

Andi Lassiter arrives riding on a cart that Glide is pushing which also carries a backup power source (okay, it's more accurately a 'bot-sized gurney).

Blue Fire Engine runs rolls over to the hovercraft and emits, "How is he?

Glide stand out of the way of the medics.

Huffers body has signs of tire dammage, BIG tires.

Andi Lassiter stands quickly and looks to Glide. "Please, move this *indicates the power source* to the bottom rack. Hardstrike, bring him here quickly."

Glide move the power core to the lower rack.

Hardstrike looks at Hot Spot and company, and then removes the laser core from the regen chamber, and places it in front of Andi.

Hardstrike says, "I heard rumors circulating over human broadcasts....I decided to check it out..."

Streetwise nods, "Good thing you did, man. What happened?"

Hardstrike stops, taking a moment to look at the scrap, " I didn't think that it could possibly be...well..." he says, " Huffer. Best I could tell it was Stunticons..."

Andi Lassiter looks at the laser core, trying to keep a grim expression from her face, then quickly walks to the side of the gurney and lays down to reach over the edge and snag the connector cables for the power source. She drags them back to the laser core and carefully attaches them.

Trailbreaker takes in the scene as he walks toward the gathering. "Is that......?!" he exclaims, shocked.
Hardstrike looks at Trailbreaker, his optics dim with sorrow. All he can do is nod, grimly.
Andi Lassiter lets the power source detect the laser core and start doing its job, then looks to Hardstrike again. "Okay, let's get all of him back to the repair bay."

Glide says, "If he doesen't make it, I'm gonna personally rip out each and every one of those Stunticons' motherboards!"

Repair Bay

     This is the main repair bay for the Autobots. Several operating tables lie in a row here, and a long bench lines one wall. On the bench are assorted tools used in repairing damaged transformers. Scattered throughout the room are various repair bots, awaiting the arrival of more wounded to repair. The room gives you the perception of being immaculately clean, with not a single tool out of place.


Streetwise wheels in the gurney, quickly and carefully.

Huffer is plopped down carefully on the examination table.

Andi Lassiter directs the gurney to one side of an already prepared medtable and looks to Hardstrike. "Over here."
Trailbreaker makes a strangled sound, but doesn't say anything. He just watches, hoping there is some way to save Huffer.
Hardstrike nods, and carefully transfers Huffer's remains to the chosen table. He eyes the laser core, making sure its intact and powered.

Andi Lassiter dumps her bag on the gurney and without a care for modesty (she KNOWS time is critical, okay?) she pulls her normal repair coveralls out of the bag and starts putting them on over her other clothing.

Streetwise plugs Huffer in to several monitoring devices and prepares a set of tools and spares for Andi. He's seen First Aid do this before, so he makes a good nurse.

Hardstrike heads over to a nearby consol and hits a few buttons. Heck, he's been here enough to see this done quiet a few times. " Teletran 2, activate cybertronian diagnostic and moniteration systems..." the transformer says, and watches a small, flat object with a shiny steel serface lowered to be above the med table. Lights ringing the sides glow blue, showing it activated. A small monitor comes up to where Andi and others cans ee the Laser Core/Huffer's life signss. The computer drones in response " Cybertronian Diagnostic and Moniteration Systems...ONLINE. "

Andi Lassiter finishes 'gearing up' and turns...to see Streetwise already preparing for her. She smiles a thanks to him and starts working on the laser core first.

Trailbreaker can't seem to settle down, he makes a hasty exit.

Streetwise smiles briefly in return and stads ready with the tools he knows Andi will need.

Glide stands well out of the way of the repairs, knowing that he's out of his field here.

Huffers life signs seem steady.

Hardstrike then walks over to the monitor, and eyes the menu for a moment. Finally, finding what looks right, he presses it, and the scanning converts to Laser Core system life signs only. " Enrgy level at....80 and standing. Electronic activity at 70  and...and memory stabilizers at 60 ..."

Blaster walks into the room and glances around, "What's going on everybody?"
Huffers lased core seems to be showing stable readings.

Trailbreaker nods a greeting, pointing at Huffers wrecked but still living remains.

Streetwise glances over his shoulder at Trailbreaker, "Don't worry man. Andi here's good."

Trailbreaker says in a low voice "I know she is"

Blaster walks into the room and glances around, "What's going on everybody?"

Huffers life force must be as stubborn as he is because the signals are still strong.

Andi Lassiter finishes the delicate task of making sure that Huffer's laser core is in NO danger of degrading, then sits back for a moment. "Okay. He's stable for the moment. But the longer he's without a body, the more disorienting it's going to be. I'm going to need as much help as possible."

Streetwise nods, "Just tell us what you need."

Blaster grimaces at the horrible damage done to Huffer... what kind of damage is on him?

Andi Lassiter nods to Streetwise. "First, I need every piece of his external armor removed from everything else. Then I need someone to find his transformation cog. I think we're going to have to do an almost complete rebuild here."

Huffers crunched up body is covered with giant tire treads, the obvious sign of a Stunticon attack (well that or Optimus Prime came back with vengence on his mind). Eventually Hardstrike comes accross the nearly completley intact laser core of the miserable Autobot engineer.

Hardstrike thinks for a moment, " Andi...couldn't we place his laser core in a drone or something until his body is done...so he can at least help us out by giving his layout..."

Streetwise turns around to the others, "You heard the woman; give me a hand pulling off these plates."
Trailbreaker steps forward to help out.
Glide grabs an arm and starts pulling the plating off.

Blaster helps pull the plate out.

Streetwise starts to pull off sections of orange and purple armour using a variety of tools. Obviously he's not the ideal choice for this task, but he has at least a rough idea of what he's doing.

Andi Lassiter hms. "That's a good idea, Hardstrike." She calls over one of the gumby medics to talk with him briefly.
<OOC> Andi Lassiter says, "Huffer do you want us to give you a drone body in the meantime?"

Hardstrike grins, even though the suggestion was just a random guess. He continues to eye the life stats, while Andi is busy.

Trailbreaker grabs a leg and pulls the plating off, then does the same with the other.

Glide rips the armor off of the other arm.

Streetwise finishes pulling away the armour around Huffer's head and torso, "Ok Andi, I think we're done with this. Next job?"

Blaster rips off Huffer's plating with glee.

Trailbreaker takes a step back, looking at Andi.

Andi Lassiter nods her thanks to those helping. "Okay, give all of those pieces to (Gumbies) to either rework or copy and then start putting the parts in the order they belong, as best you can." She smiles a bit at that last, clearly trying to lighten the mood by joking a bit.

Gumby #1 goes to see about the availability of a drone bodyfor Huffer's laser core.

Streetwise passes the plates he has to one of the gumby medics. They take them and feed them into a recycler, which reads their characteristics and produces new versions of them.

Glide puts the arms on the med table.

Hardstrike monitors the laser core vital signs. " Power levels at 95 percent, CircuitOperations at 90 Percent, Memory Savers at 100 percent. "

Andi Lassiter nods to Hardstrike. "If you could, please keep an eye on that, if anything starts to drop, let me know."
Hardstrike nods to Andi, " Will do..I know how it feels to have ones life in a nothers hands..."
Glide says, "Well, at least you haven't been buried for 4 million years. I still feel rusty."

Andi Lassiter steps across to the medtable and starts looking at the pieces, using her scanner to check each separate piece for internal damage and whatever all.

Streetwise nods in greeting to the Gestalt leader and turns back to his task.

Huffer lies in several dozen flat peices on the med table. His laser core seems to have been stablized though.

Andi Lassiter looks up as Gumby #1 returns with a drone body, already prepared to accept the currently bodyless laser core. She moves her bag of tools off of the gurney to let aforementioned gumby complete the procedure of installing Huffer's laser core.

Hardstrike monitors life signs, waiting until the drone activates with Huffer in it before turning them to full diagnostic mode.

Andi Lassiter looks at the readings on her scanner and actually swears loudly enough to be heard. "How long has it been since Huffer's last maintenance check?"

Streetwise grunts, "He never bothers; and always complains that he's not running properly. Probably hasn't been in here for about four million years."

Hardstrike blinks, and checks the database. " Erm...uhh...almost 3 million years...or something or another..."

Hardstrike says, "Oh, and Andy, those words you yelled. They aren't in my language data base, mind telling me what they mean ?"

Andi Lassiter sighs. "It shows. Okay, this is going to be long and involved. Almost ALL of his internal wiring and replaceable components are in dire need of replacement." She looks around the pieces. "Where is his transformation cog?'

Glide says, "Good question."

Glide searches through the pile of Huffer parts.

Streetwise sniggers, and turns to hardstrike, "They're just words for expressing particular animal acts and things about someone's parentage. Don't worry too much about them."

Huffers transformation cog plops out from behind his faceplate.

Andi Lassiter blinks up at Hardstrike, and actually has to take a moment to remember what she said that he might be asking about. Once she realizes...she blushes and smiles a bit sheepishly. "It was...wrong of me to say that. I'll explain later, okay?'

Andi Lassiter gasps and gives Streetwise a sharp look.

Glide snickers.

Streetwise raises his optic ridges, "What? That's what you said, and I passed it on politely."

Hardstrike blinks, and simply puts down ' It was wrong of me to say that ' as the definition in his database, until Andi explains in more detail.

Glide laughs out loud.
Glide says, "You guys ought to read a human dictionary. It's VERY enlightening."

Streetwise taps his chest, "I'm not called this for nothing man; first thing I picked up were the swear words." He grins.

Andi Lassiter starts directing everyone available to fetch different parts needed to repair Huffer, and the gumby medic steps back, Huffer's laser core installed and activated.

Glide smirks.

Several lights blink on the drone's diagnostic panel.

Hardstrike switchs to full body diagnostic of the drone, and everything checks out. " Looks good. And I think I know where I heard those words before, when I was studyoing earth culture on cybertron. It was on some sort of video feed..." he says, searching through the database on the console. " Ah, here it is.." and hardstrike motions to what is really Porno, " Human reproduction..."

Hardstrike checks to see what the lights mean.

Streetwise quickly hits the off switch, "Uh, you really shouldn't be watching that stuff, HS. It's not really... appropriate family viewing."

Glide says, "Uh, Hardstrike, I don't think you want to do that."

Hardstrike blinks, and shrugs. One has to remember he's stilla bit new to human culture. HE continues to check on the flashing lights of the drone's diagnostic reports.

Andi Lassiter continues to direct parts running as she effects repairs, starting at Huffer's head.
The lights on the drone show 'Diagnostic's complete: Power transfer succesfull'.

Glide says, "I had a grand total of 1 month to assimilate the whole of Earth's recorded history and contemporary knowledge."
Glide says, "My CPU is still sore."

Hardstrike looks over to Andi, " Transfer Complete. Ready to activate drone's systems

Streetwise heads into a storeroom to grab some more parts.